Little Girls In Church by Kathleen Norris (Pitt Poetry Series)

This volume of poetry presents a "spiritual geography". Its places are varied including the grasslands, the small towns of the western Dakotas, the industrial landscape of northern New Jersey and the quiet spaces of a Benedictine monastery.

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In a poem dedicated to poet Elizabeth Kray, Norris is at a funeral home, where taped music is played: ``violins sliding through `The Way We Were.'/ `Please turn the music off,' I said, civilly,/ to the undertaker's assistant.'' Civility marks her views here, whether she is imagining ``Young Lover...